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单词 allusive arms
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allusive arms
allusive arms n. Heraldry arms in which the charges make indirect reference to or suggest a pun on the bearer's name, title, occupation, etc. (cf. canting arms at canting adj.2 5).
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1724 Guillim's Display of Heraldry (ed. 6) Introd. 9 In allusive Arms we must not expect all imaginable Exactness.
1741 A. Collins Eng. Baronetage III. 167 A lordship heretofore appertaining to the Umfraviles, barons of Prudhou, of whom they held it, and bore allusive arms, as now used.
a1823 A. Radcliffe St. Alban's Abbey vii, in Posthumous Wks. (1826) III. 284 Above, the trefoil-traced pane Displayed, in bright and varied stain, Th' allusive arms, or cognizance, Of Abbots, long departed thence.
1870 F. B. Palliser Hist. Devices 300 From the time of King Edward III. they have borne a fret argent, called the ‘Harrington knot’—allusive arms, intended to represent a fishing-net.
1953 W. H. St. John Hope Gram. Eng. Heraldry (ed. 2) vi. 59 At least fifty of the shields..belong to the punning class called canting or allusive arms. The majority are evident enough, such as..the falcons of John le Fauconer.
2003 G. J. Brault in B. K. Altmann & C. W. Carroll Court Reconvenes 19 There are some instances of canting, symbolic, and allusive arms, but, more often than not, coats are attributed..haphazardly.
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